Roadmap

WordPress is continually under development. Currently, work is underway on Phase 2 of the Gutenberg project. The Gutenberg project is a reimagination of the way we manage content on the web. Its goal is to broaden access to web presence, which is a foundation of successful modern businesses. Phase 1 was the new block editor, which was released in WordPress 5.0, you can see that in action here. In 2019 we’re focusing on Phase 2 which will provide a way for themes to visually register content areas, and expose these in Gutenberg.

For 2019 the project also has the following 9 priorities, as outlined in this post by project lead Matt Mullenweg:

Creating a block for navigation menus.

Port all existing widgets to blocks.

Upgrade the widgets-editing areas and the Customizer to support blocks.

Provide a way for themes to visually register content areas, and expose them in Gutenberg.

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Currently planned releases

Here are the current planned releases, and links to their respective milestones in our issue tracker. Any projected dates are for discussion and planning purposes, and will be firmed up as we get closer to release.

Long term roadmap

While we expect to need most or all of 2019 to finish phase 2 of Gutenberg, there are already plans for Phase 3 and 4. Phase 3 will focus on collaboration and multi-user editing. Phase 4 will contain support for multilingual sites.